Quicken for Mac 2006. The Ex Communists Revenge
Quicken for Mac 2006 is a software revenge of the Ex Communist Commandos trained in the art of confusing the fuck out of the unsuspecting customer. You may have read my
first attempt at working with this Trojan Horse Naziwear and my second
report about infiltration of Kommunist Klones. But the latest trick I found is this. Let's say 2 years ago I bought 1 share of BRK B (that would be the B stock of Berkshire Hathaway. Hi Warren!) for $3076 because I wanted to save some money on my GECCO car insurance and receive these nice Annual Reports with chairman's letters to shareholders but I decided that I should really sell that stock few months later since I had sold car my car and I could get Annual Reports on the web. So I sold the stock, one share. Both transactions were entered in Quicken for Mac 2006 Deluxe. All was seemingly well with BRK b for ever having been glued to the memory of Quicken files.
Few months ago I realized that I really don't want to see BRK b is in the list of all my securities. This was a stock I didn't really pay attention to any more and I didn't want to track it nor have it visible in my Security Detail window as I was scanning my Empire's holdings weekly. - So what did I do? I could have just hidden it in my list of securities yet I had decided that I would probably never need to see it again and I have selected to delete it from the list of securities. - Ha! But how does Quicken for Mac 2006 Deluxe react to such a move by a small time Empire Building Invstor? It doesn't say to me "Yo. Fucker, you got some transactions for this security and if you delete it the transactions will be orphaned". No No No. Instead it simply removes the security from the list; and it removes it from the already reconciled transactions in my register for the account. It keeps the transactions but it removes the reference and what those transactions are now referring to is a non exisiting item, a blank. But I only found out about it 3 months later.
One day I happen to scan my Register and I find several Reconciled transactions with share prices, commissions and and total cash ins and outs and I have no fucking idea what they refer to because where the security's name is supposed to be I have a blank space. - After getting pissed off at the Ex Communist Commandos who guide the work of the programmers at Quicken producing a shitty piece of software called Quicken for Mac 2006 I try to figure out what happened, and this is where BRK b came into being. It was easy to spot from some 20 transactions the one share for $3076. Thank Jesus Bunker that there is such a stock as BRK b trading at $3000 per share or I would have never been able to figure out what happened. I remember deleting BRK b, having been successful at it and not having any objections from Quicken I have deleted other securities I no longer cared about since my relationship with them was brief and a long time ago (say 5 years ago) and some of them were bought by other companies and were no longer traded. It seemed like this house cleaning made sense to me. But Quicken did its part diligently. For every security I deleted it simply removed all references from the already existing transactions.
Now comes the fun part. I needed to find what all those 20 some transactions were related to. Kombinat! is great at record keeping. it knows all and can find all at all times so I found the transactions and all I needed to do was to enter back the security names in my Register for the transactions with blank names. Easy, right? Well, yes but Quicken upon having accepted the name of my newly reset retyped reentered security automatically started changing the transactions amounts because even when the security was deleted somehow someway Quicken continued keeping track of the closing price of that security for the day I sold it and instead of keeping the prices intact (yes, they were Reconciled mind you) it insisted that indeed perhaps I did sell that particular security at the closing price of the day. But guess what, Quicken didn't alert me of this at all, it just automatically changed the price and when I saved the record it prompted me to reconcile my account anew because amounts were not correct any more. So if you are an investor you may not know exactly for how much you sold each share, you just know the proceeds and commission. This is after all you are interested in really. Total proceeds and commission for tax purposes. But Quicken uses the number of shares times the prices it thinks you sold it for plus the commission you already have had entered and calculates the total proceeds for you without asking you. This I concluded was the revenge of Ex Communist Commands who now are in charge producing this shitty software called Quicken for Mac 2006 Deluxe.
Now I am really tired and I don't want to write any more about the next Communist Trick called Stock Splits and how that is handled. Let's just say completely shitty, like an Ex Communist Commando would do to confuse your Capitalist Spirit. Oy Shitty indeed. (yes, Quicken for Mac 2006 Deluxe belongs to the Museum of Communism)
